It would be pretty swell, rather than fixed in the themerc, if the text shadowing could be configured in the WM preferences. I know that, depending on the text colour for the GTK theme and the WM theme I have at present, I sometimes want what the theme does not offer by default.
This is now implemented in SVN trunk. New Revision: 18349 Allow configurable shadow color with "active_text_shadow_color" and "inactive_text_shadow_color" (fixes enhancement request #418)
Thanks a lot Olivier! I look forward to trying out SVN soon. One question: if themes start using those color properties, will they still work in <=4.2? And will the current property to show shadowed text (I forget its name at present) be ignored now? I'll post a notice to themers on the forums once I make sure it's OK to go ahead and change the themerc.
If a theme specifies the colors, it will work with 4.4 but not with 4.2, ie the color will be ignored (the theme will still works but the shadows will be simply black).